Recent content by jbuckets4

There's always more than one way to skin a cat!!! (Actually, the word "cat" in this usage refers to catfish, not felines....)

Oops! I have Windows 8.1 Professional. To confirm that you have at least an Administrator account, goto Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage Another Account and look for the word "Administrator" below any of the listed account names. Ideally, your everyday Windows account ought to be a...

Disabled Windows Control Service entry referencing screen saver in Task Mgr -> Startup!

"The .reg file you merged only added "Copy To" and "Move To" to the context menu of files like our tutorial below. " You mean a right-click option on a filename?

I have both a Win 8.1 laptop & a now-dead Win 7 Pro desktop. Perhaps the Win 7 File Explorer doesn't have these two command icons. If I were able to add a new command icon to the ribbon, then I suppose that I would also need to specify an icon-graphics pix file and its width/ size in said ribbon.

OK, now I understand. So the CopyTo & MoveTo icons/ buttons/ options have ALWAYS existed in the ribbon from day one via Win8?

Brink, your remove.reg file only inactivated (grayed out) these two buttons/ icons at the top of File Explorer. :-(

Understood, but wouldn't the thief already be unable to install/ activate his windows OS anyway because I'm already using/ registered it? Again - thanks for the warning! I didn't recognize it as being a product code until you pointed it out. Oops!

Brink, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your assistance! For 2 New Buttons (Via Merging the Text Below into Registry) on Windows File Explorer: CopyTo, MoveTo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\CopyTo]...

How do I UN-merge a previously-merged .reg file from the registry? Windows 8.1

Thanks Caperjack for the warning! :-) Not certain but I think that the product code might be (partly?) stored on the motherboard of my OEM notebook.

I was able to configure the dialog to launch at login, but cannot find the instructions on my laptop for disabling said feature.

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Ah! Didn't recognize (nor would I ever even remember) the Win+X key combo or its official name: Power Users Tasks Menu. Also, Capt. Jack Sparrow seemingly specified the incorrect location to be "the bottom right hand side of the screen," so I wanted to explicitly clear up any remaining...

Right-click the Start icon in the bottom left-hand corner and select "Command Prompt (Admin)."